The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American LiteraturePeter Lang, 1996 - 142 pagina's How and when does literature most effectively uncover race to be a mataphor? The passing figure, a light-skinned African-American capable and willing to pass for white, provides the thematic focus to this provocative study. In exploring the social and cultural history of this distinctly American phenomenon, Bennett moves freely between literature, film, and music, arguing that the passing figure is crucial to our understanding of past and present conceptions of race. |
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... woman during the Harlem Renaissance , these are significant clues . But Larson undercuts the lesson of such visual ... woman that is boldly staring at her could not possibly suspect her of passing , for white people are " so stupid about ...
... woman during the Harlem Renaissance , these are significant clues . But Larson undercuts the lesson of such visual ... woman that is boldly staring at her could not possibly suspect her of passing , for white people are " so stupid about ...
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... woman who acts too white . Ice Cube's video " Be True to the Gang " shows the rapper kidnapping and holding hostage the black men who threaten to leave the gang of blackness by passing , by acting too white . Conservative clothes ...
... woman who acts too white . Ice Cube's video " Be True to the Gang " shows the rapper kidnapping and holding hostage the black men who threaten to leave the gang of blackness by passing , by acting too white . Conservative clothes ...
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... woman , is followed by what appear to be menacing thugs . Jude , the blonde woman , warns Jody , the black man , not to kiss her in public . " Who gives a fuck ! " Jody exclaims . And Jude responds , " You never know . " This dialogue ...
... woman , is followed by what appear to be menacing thugs . Jude , the blonde woman , warns Jody , the black man , not to kiss her in public . " Who gives a fuck ! " Jody exclaims . And Jude responds , " You never know . " This dialogue ...
Inhoudsopgave
An Introduction to Passing | 1 |
Theme to Genre | 35 |
How White People Pass | 61 |
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The Passing Figure: Racial Confusion in Modern American Literature Juda Bennett Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 1998 |
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